Manager, Football player, Shuna, Tufike Apa, Bill On Fire
Spouse
Sheryl Gascoigne
Children
Bianca Gascoigne, Mason Gascoigne, Regan Gascoigne, Shuna, Tufike Apa, Bill On Fire
Parents
John Gascoigne, Carol Gascoigne, Shuna, Tufike Apa, Bill On Fire
Awards
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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I didn't ask to be an alcoholic, but I must admit I worked on it. I went to any lengths to get my drink, I'll go even further to stay sober.
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I never predict anything, and I never will.
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Fact
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Appointed Manager of non-league Kettering Town [October 2005]
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Resigned as player-coach at Boston United FC [October 2004]
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Working as a pundit for ITV during their coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. [June 2002]
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Sacked as Manager of Kettering Town after 39 days in post [December 2005]
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Appointed player-coach at Boston United FC [July 2004]
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Suffers from OCD.
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Arrested over alleged assault on a photographer, and sacked as Manager of Kettering Town FC after an allegation of being unfit to manage the team due to alcoholism. [December 2005]
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He met his ex-wife Sheryl Failes Kyle after she broke up from her first husband, Colin Kyle, with whom she had two children with - Mason Gascoigne (b. 1990) and Bianca Gascoigne (b. 1986). They all lived together until Paul and Sheryl divorced in 1998.
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Made public that he wishes to be referred to as G8 as part of his new image. He has shed weight and stopped drinking and now wants the new nickname, which is a combination of the first letter of his surname and the number he wore through most of his footballing career, to cement his new, improved TV image. [November 2004]
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His football career was hampered by injury and a frequent lack of fitness, due largely to his bad diet of junk food and alcohol.
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He famously cried in the 1990 World Cup semi-final, after he was issued a yellow card that meant he would be suspended for the final if England qualified.
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In 1990 his performances for England in that year's FIFA World Cup earned him the honour of BBC Sports Personality of the Year, making him the first footballer since Bobby Moore in 1966 to win the award.
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He played 57 matches for England and scored 10 goals.
He was notorious for being able to score from free-kicks a long way from the goal.
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FA Cup winner with Tottenham Hotspur FC (1991).
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His first international goal was against Czechoslovakia on 25 April 1990.
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Made his England debut against Denmark on 14 September 1988.
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His brilliant individual goal for England against Scotland in Euro '96 is widely regarded as being one of the finest combinations of skill and finishing ever seen on the international soccer stage.
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A midfielder, he was a key member of the England teams that progressed to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the 1996 UEFA European Championship.
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He was dropped from the England team shortly before the 1998 World Cup, and hasn't played for the national side since.
$100 Thousand
